“The riveting story of the only American to help lead a resistance group against the Nazis.”
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“A gorgeous collage of history and family lore, a revelatory window onto a Götterdämmerung that transformed the world forever.”
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“A powerful book… Ms. Donner’s use of the present tense increases the feeling of inevitability as she unfolds her story to its horrific conclusion... A nonfiction narrative with the pace of a political thriller, it’s imbued with suspense and dread… a deeply affecting biography, meticulously researched and illustrated… Ms. Donner evocatively brings to life the giddy feeling of freedom under the Weimar regime in Berlin and how swiftly it eroded. Her account of the decline of liberties is harrowing.”
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“[Donner] brings forensic and literary skills — along with access to family papers and a key witness — to a story at once deeply personal and broadly inspiring.”
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“Despite its ostensibly forbidding subject matter this is a thrilling and inspiring book...a treasure trove for lovers of biography, new writing and the history of the Third Reich.”
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“Donner — Harnack’s great-great niece — draws on notes, diaries, letters and declassified intelligence materials to offer this window into 1930s Germany and Harnack’s remarkable actions.”
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“This is a superb, sure-footed work of historical detection conceived with a powerful intelligence.”
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“Donner’s research is impeccable, and her fluid prose and vivid character sketches keep the pages turning as the story moves toward its inevitable, tragic conclusion.”
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“Donner’s meticulous research and novelist’s sensibility make for a riveting biography of a remarkable and brave woman; there’s also good insight into the German Resistance.”
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